After 25 years of teaching justice and peace studies at St. Thomas, professor Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer will retire at the end of the school year. Nelson-Pallmeyer, a political activist and academic writer, focused his work on issues like hunger, poverty and faith.
College students — many for the first time — represented at the DFL and GOP victory parties on election night.
An evening of high hopes at the Democratic-Farmer-Labor election party turned to uncertainty as Hillary Clinton slipped behind Donald Trump in electoral votes.
Four St. Thomas students volunteered at the precinct caucuses to become delegates for the Senate district 64 DFL convention on April 3.
Hundreds of thousands of Minnesotans flocked to the caucuses Tuesday night, giving Sen. Bernie Sanders more than 60 percent of the Minnesota vote in the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party caucus.
Sen. Al Franken defeated his Republican opponent Mike McFadden, and Gov. Mark Dayton beat Republican Jeff Johnson in a five-candidate race.
The 2014 midterm elections prompted St. Thomas students to vote at one of two local polling locations Tuesday.
